Technology resources

Teaching Languages with iPads

Listening, speaking, reading and writing with an iPad is a little different but the principles of good language teaching still apply.

i-Pad Apps for Languages

App name	Cost	Description
Popplet	Yes	Mind mapping
Idea Sketch	Free	Mind mapping
iCardSort	Free	Brainstorming
Mindomo	Free	Brainstorming
Socrative	Free	Pre-testing, continuous assessment
Cooliris	Free	Brainstorming using images

Toontastic:Free	Free	Draw, animate and share cartoons
Puppet Pals HD	Free	Create shows with animation and audio in real time
Doodle Buddy	Free	Allows users to paint, draw, scribble. Good for scripted languages
Strip designer	Yes	Comic strip creator
Make a martian	Yes	Good for describing people
Stories 2 learn	Yes	Story making
Photo Comic	Yes	Comic making
Pic Collage	Free	Create collages with images and text
bookPress	Free	Create ibooks
Bookemon	Free	Create books for androids

Fotopedia Heritage	Free	Photos from around the world
Soda Snap Postcards	Free	Turns photos into electronic postcards
iMotion HD	Free	Take photos, edit your movie and export
Cooliris	Free	Access to photos
Bill Atkinson's Photocard	Free	Creates Postcards with images, text and audio

Touch Cards 2	Yes	Can import flashcards from Quizlet, Study Stack and Google Docs
Word power Lite	Free	1 word per day sent to iPad

Pages	Yes	Word processing. Making documents
Keynote	Yes	Making presentations
Google Translator	Free	All languages
EduCreations	Free	Create stores with images, text and audio
Evernote	Free	Note taking, filing, organisation, audio
Readability	Free	Downloads,erases adds, stores, saves articles

CanUhanyu	Free	Reading, speaking,listening

Free

Tour of Louvre in French (English available too with explanations of artworks etc)

Try this link for more apps to use in the French language classroom:
http://web2-4languageteachers.wikispaces.com/iPad+apps

ilang	Free	Basic indonesian (flash cards, memory game, quiz, spelling and listening activities on a number of different categories)
Groovia Lite	Free	A “one stop multimedia service” for Indonesians, brought to us by Telkomsel (Indonesia’s largest telecommunications provider) Watch Indonesian TV
7-Eleven Indonesia	Free	Find the location of 7-Eleven stores in Indonesia and see street-view pictures of them. Use it to: Get a sense of what Indonesian street-scapes are like; access and decode advertising

Try these links for apps that can be used in the Japanese language classroom:
http://www.japteach.com/apps.html

Technology Tools For Differentiation Ken Wong AISNSW